Freight

Bhubaneswar, Aug 8: Odisha government fixed the maximum freight rates for mineral transportation in five districts with immediate effect. The state government announced the new freight rates on Friday with an aim to restrict truck owners…

Kolkata, May 25 (IANS): Eastern Railways has set a target of ferrying 72 million tonnes of freight this fiscal after surpassing its target of 65 million tonne in the last fiscal (2014-15), a senior official said here on Monday. "We had…

The Railways will increase its freight rates for several commodities including grains, pulses, urea, coal and cement from April 1 as proposed in the Railway Budget 2015-16. In his Rail Budget, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had proposed an…

Even as he chose to remain silent on freight in his speech and said he will keep passenger tariff unchanged, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Thursday sought to hike goods rates on a host of items between 2.1 percent and 10 percent in his…

Keeping passenger fares unchanged, Minister Suresh Prabhu presented his maiden Railway budget Thursday, promising to balance passenger needs and long-term interests of the organisation to benchmark it globally on quality, safety and reach.…

The Indian Railways Wednesday reported an increase of 4.64 percent in freight carried during April-January, 2015. According to the railways, it carried 906.36 million tonnes of freight in the period under review as compared to 866.14…

The government Saturday said there was no proposal to increase fares in the upcoming railway budget. According to Minister of State (MoS) for Railways Manoj Sinha, there was no proposal at present to increase rail fares. "There is no…